Tuesday, June 7, 2016

MMA star, Kimbo Slice, real name Kevin Ferguson,
died last night in Coconut Creek, Florida, a city on
the outskirts of Miami. Slice was hospitalized at
the Northwest Medical Center, after feeling unwell
and died shortly after. Reports indicate the popular
MMA star had a fatal heart attack. The hospital has
not released the suspected underlying cause of
Slice's fatal heart attack. No official statement
has been released by the medical examiner on the
exact cause of Slice's early passing. An autopsy and
toxicology report is expected in coming weeks.

Slice is a former high school football player. He
attended the University of Miami (as did The Rock).
In 1997, Slice had a tryout with the Miami Dolphins,
but did not make the team. Slice then became a
heavyweight boxer and mixed martial artist, rising
to fame in 2007. He became an online sensation, due
to videos he released of himself on You Tube,
fighting others in his backyard.

The videos attracted the attention of the EliteXC
and then UFC, who signed him to successive deals.In 2007, Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed Slice
"the king of the web brawlers" in reference to the
popularity of his viral videos. Slice was scheduled
to fight in London, England on July 16, 2016, as
apart of a Bellator MMA show. He leaves behind a
fiancée and six children.

People need to be careful in their pursuit of
fame and fortune. Hollywood is full of vipers, who
would have you sell your soul to the devil in
exchange for fame and money, asking you to do things
that damage your body, mind and soul. However, said
fame and fortune is short lived and comes at a
massive personal and professional price.

Leave that lifestyle alone, lest it destroys you.
Take care of your health, body, mind and soul. You
can make it without compromising yourself. There are
no shortcuts to fame and fortune. The shortcuts are
dead ends, with emphasis on the word dead. I've seen
it happen to many people in music and sports.

I've
seen many quickly rise under the wrong
circumstances, then catastrophically fall overnight,
sustaining extensive, life changing damage, from
having the wrong people around them, who claimed
they were so-called friends and business associates,
but proved to be their undoing and downfall.

STORY SOURCE

Kimbo Slice Dead at 42

6/6/2016 8:30 PM PDT - Slice has died ... TMZ
Sports has confirmed. He was 42. We broke the story,
Slice was hospitalized early Monday near his home in
Coral Springs, FL. He passed away a short time
later. The CEO of Bellator MMA confirmed the news
... saying, "We are all shocked and saddened by the
devastating untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved
member of the Bellator family.' ..
Details surrounding Kimbo's death are unclear.
We're working on it. Kimbo -- real name Kevin
Ferguson -- last fought at Bellator 149 back in
February and defeated Dada 5000 -- but the victory
was overturned when Slice tested positive for a
banned steroid...Slice also did some acting --
appearing in 2012's "The Scorpion King 3: Battle for
Redemption."

10:53 PM 06/06/2016 - The MMA fighter — whose
real name is Kevin Ferguson — was hospitalized in
Florida Monday for undisclosed health reasons. TMZ
reported that he was in “dire” condition and that
the situation did “not look good.” The CEO of
Bellator MMA also confirmed the news. “We are all
shocked and saddened by the devastating untimely
loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the
Bellator family,” he said in a statement Monday
night. “One of the most popular MMA fighters ever,
Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life
personality that transcended the sport.”

Several sources on Twitter now claim he died of
heart failure, but a cause of death has not been
confirmed...He was scheduled to fight James Thompson
in Bellator 158 on July 16 in London.

Popular mixed martial arts
fighter Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson has died. He
was 42. Slice was stricken at his South Florida home
and taken Monday evening to the Northwest Medical
Center in Fort Lauderdale, a spokeswoman for the
Coral Springs, Fla., Police told Yahoo Sports
Monday. TMZ was the first to report the news...

MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic,
larger-than-life personality that trancended the
sport." Sgt. Carla Kmiotek of the Coral Springs
police told Yahoo Sports no foul play is suspected.
She said the department dispatched a team of
officers to Slice's home because he is a public
figure in order to control whatever crowd might
gather.

"At 8 p.m. (ET) we received a call from TMZ,"
Kmiotek said. "Our communications department
confirmed with Northwest Medical that he is there.
We did not receive a police or EMS call from the
residence. There is no foul play suspected and there
is no investigation. It is being handled as a
medical incident...